Vivari are the animal peoples of Origor — sapient animals who predate the Urknall and have been transformed by the same Nevril process as the Lumian.
What Vivari Are
Vivari are not simply animals. They are fully sapient beings who happen to be, physically, wolves, boars, bears, eagles, and other animal forms. They communicate, reason, plan, hold opinions, and participate in governance in communities where they are recognized as community members.
The degree to which they are recognized varies significantly by faction.
Vivari by Faction
Thalvori: The most egalitarian relationship. Vivari are recognized community members with implied rights in all Thalvori settlements. The wolves, boars, bears, and eagles of Mitte have attended Archivarin meetings as recognized parties. Other factions consider this eccentric. The Thalvori consider it obvious.
Verdant Dome: Vivari are integral to the forest community — the Thornbeasts and other transformed animal Exalari exist on a spectrum from semi-wild (responding to Heart Tree directives) to fully integrated (living in Wurzelherz). The distinction between Lumian and Vivari is less sharp here than anywhere else.
Chromatic Pastures: Color Dancers are among the oldest PRISMA Exalari and function as communication intermediaries. Vivari in the Chromatic Pastures are full community members with speaking roles in consensus gatherings.
Frozen Silence: Vivari are present but not recognized as having equal status to Lumian. The Frozen Silence officially describes living Vivari as "observed" — studied, documented, assessed. They are not asked.
Molten Scar: Status is earned by proximity to the Caldera, and most animals cannot survive it. Standard Vivari hold lower status; the Cinderkin Exalari are a distinct case entirely.
Vivari in the Aruunai Theme
The Aruunai theme includes 4 Lumian unit archetypes and 4 Vivari unit archetypes, all classified as Neutral — representing the pre-Urknall baseline of Origor's peoples, before Nevril transformation differentiated them into biome-specific variants. Neutral Lumian and Vivari units are available only when a player selects the Thalvori faction: the faction that, in lore, preserved the pre-transformation relationship between peoples.